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Sunday, 26 March 2017

It can hardly believe that we have made it to the end of the first quarter of the 2017 FAL already and it's now time to link up your Q1 finishes! In addition to completing all those UFOs on your lists, we hope you have taken the first 3 months of 2017 to get to know all of our new hosts!

The 2017 FAL has a community of bloggers across the world jointly hosting the FAL. Our hosts are:

The 2017 Q1 link for your finishes is now open below on my blog and on each of the hosting blogs - you only need to link on one blog for your finish to appear on each blog.Link-up "rules":

Add one link for each finish. If you want to link a round up post of all your finishes, use that link to enter one of your finishes and then link the rest of your finishes separately. Please, only one link per finish, as your link is an entry into the randomly drawn prize draws.

Please ensure that the photo or blog post you link up contains a link or reference back to your original list so that we can verify your entry (make sure it is from the appropriate quarter).

Please become part of the FAL community. Please check out the links of others and comment. We all need encouragement so let's applaud each other. The 2017 FAL Facebook page is here and follow us on Instagram @finishlong and tag your photos #2017FALQ1yourname (substitute your name), this makes it easier for us to match your finishes with your lists.

Our hosts will also link their finishes to share in the community, but they are not eligible for any of the prizes.

The Q1 Finishes link will stay open from now through until April 1, 2017 - link up your finishes early and if you have a last minute one, add that one later so you don't miss out. The prizes will be awarded as soon as we can verify all the entries and do the drawings. We will post the winners on each hosts' blog.

And don't forget to start making your Q2 lists as the Q2 list link opens on April 2nd.

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Leanne and I are happy to announce the March Scraptastic Tuesday winners.Here are our fabulous Scraptastic Tuesday Sponsors and their buttons, feel free to click through and thank them for their support:

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

So I was talking with the lovely Jenny and Jenny at the Sussex Sewing Club in February - yes they are two different and wonderful girls! We all expressed an interest in making a postage stamp quilt! Crazy I know! Well I have lots of small scraps and think this will be the best way to use them up. Not sure what everyone else's excuse is??

Chatting on Instagram with Dee and her plan to cut up 2 1/2" squares we agreed to 'meet up' on Tuesdays and cut our scraps whatever size was required with the hashtag #scrappytrimalong ! Everyone is welcome to join in - you know you want to - whether that be cutting or cheering along.

This will hopefully happen every Tuesday! Little and often will certainly get it done! As you can see it is working for me....

It's the second Tuesday of the month and that means that the Scraptastic Tuesday link is open. Please share your scrappy projects, in progress or completed or your tips for using or organizing your scraps.

Here are our fabulous Scraptastic Tuesday Sponsors and their buttons, feel free to click through and thank them for their support:

Please join Leanne from She Can Quilt and I by linking up a blog post or flickr or instagram photo sharing a scrappy project, in progress or finished, or your thoughts on dealing with your scrap mountain:

You don't have to have joined us before, everyone is welcome.

One link per person, and it will be your entry into the random draw for the prizes. It is the same link up here and at Leanne's blog - She Can Quilt - so you only need to link up on one of our blogs.

This link is to share with our community about using your scraps, please don't use it to advertise your own products or events.

You can link up from your blog, instagram or flickr, but you have to link up to be entered in the prize draw.

Please visit at least a few of the links, they are very inspiring, and leave comments too as everyone loves to connect.

Use the Scraptastic Tuesday button and invite your friends to join us too. Please share our button, or a link or the hashtag #scraptastictuesday in your linked post or photo.

The link is open until next Monday night at 10:00 pm MST. We will announce the winners next Tuesday.

If you have trouble linking up, let me or Leanne know and we will get you sorted.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to share with us this month.